Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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